Mike Mazurki Overview:

Character actor, Mike Mazurki, was born Michail Mazuruski on Dec 25, 1907 in Tarnopol, Galicia. Mazurki died at the age of 83 on Dec 9, 1990 in Glendale, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

MINI BIO:

Austrian-born actor. In America from an early age, he was a professional footballer and wrestler before taking his huge frame to Hollywood to play hoodlums' henchmen. Dim-looking (but actually well-educated), with hook nose, open mouth and aggressive, small-eyed stare, he would have done any Damon Runyon story proud, and became the definitive Moose Malloy in the 1945 version of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Mike Mazurki Quotes:

Sr. First Sergeant: [a Cossack] kills Poles just because they're Poles. Like we're trying to kill Indians just because they're Indians.
Capt. Thomas Archer: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!


Mouse: Do you think he has an even chance to keep them off us... and still get through?
Roshko: With him, the chance is always better than even.


Chief Policeman: [Hajj the poet has just been sentenced by the Wazir, and the Chief Policeman enters to find him and Lalume, the Wazir's wife, kissing] Is that his sentence?


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Mike Mazurki Facts
In 1936 he played minor=league football with the Wessington Passaic (NJ) Red Devils, a team in the American Football Association.

Awarded the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame's New York State Award, which was presented to an individual who made significant contributions to the sport of Professional Wrestling in the PWHF's home state of New York.

Contrary to his image as a brawny, not very smart tough guy, Mazurki graduated at the top of his class from Manhattan College, class of 1930, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

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